The Education, Identities and Society (EIS) research group is comprised of interdisciplinary scholars working within the Department of Education. Our work covers all educational sectors, and includes informal and alternative education settings. We strive for theoretically driven research that also has an important applied and policy focus. Our areas of expertise include:
- Access and widening participation
- Embodiment and embodied learning
- Family and parenting
- Youth identities
- Professional formations and professional identities
- Power, resistance, and compliance
We have considerable success in grant capture, publication, and research impact. The group aims to collaborate and support each other with writing articles, book chapters, monographs, conference papers and research grant applications. The group also plans and hosts research seminar events which draw on the professional networks of group members within our individual areas expertise.